May I Please Your Honor May 15 2011

Nathuram Godse

Born in a devotional Brahmin family, I instinctively came to revere Hindu religion, Hindu history and Hindu culture. I had, therefore, been intensely proud of Hinduism as a whole. As I grew up I developed a tendency to free thinking unfettered by any superstitious allegiance to any isms, political or religious. That is why I worked actively for the eradication of untouchability and the caste system based on birth alone. I openly joined anti-caste movements and maintained that all Hindus were of equal status as to rights, social and religious and should be considered high or low on merit alone and not through the accident of birth in a particular caste or profession. I used publicly to take part in organized anti-caste dinners in which thousands of Hindus, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Chamars and Bhangis participated. We broke the caste rules and dined in the company of each other.

my Motherland. than any other single factor has done. Gandhiji's influence in the Congress first increased and then became supreme. Gokhale. France. which he paraded ostentatiously before the country. Moreover I studied the tenets of Socialism and Marxism.I have read the speeches and writings of Dadabhai Nairoji. All this reading and thinking led me to believe it was my first duty to serve Hindudom and Hindus both as a patriot and as a world citizen. which alone. To secure the freedom and to safeguard the just interests of some thirty crores (300 million) of Hindus would automatically constitute the freedom and the well being of all India. could win and preserve the national independence of Hindustan. as to my mind these two ideologies have contributed more to the moulding of the thought and action of the Indian people during the last thirty years or so. America and' Russia. Since the year 1920. I came to believe. This conviction led me naturally to devote myself to the Hindu Sanghtanist ideology and programme. No sensible or enlightened
. Tilak. and enable her to render true service to humanity as well. one fifth of human race. after the demise of Lokamanya Tilak. along with the books of ancient and modern history of India and some prominent countries like England. His activities for public awakening were phenomenal in their intensity and were reinforced by the slogan of truth and non-violence. But above all I studied very closely whatever Veer Savarkar and Gandhiji had written and spoken. that is. Vivekanand.

He was. [In the Ramayana] Rama killed Ravana in a tumultuous fight and relieved Sita. if possible.person could object to those slogans. [In the Mahabharata]. In condemning history's towering warriors like Shivaji. I would consider it a religious and moral duty to resist and. a violent pacifist who brought untold calamities on the country in the
. It was absolutely essentially for Shivaji to overpower and kill an aggressive Afzal Khan. In fact. and Arjuna had to fight and slay quite a number of his friends and relations including the revered Bhishma because the latter was on the side of the aggressor. capable of scrupulous adherence to these lofty principles in its normal life from day to day. honour. But it is nothing but a mere dream if you imagine that the bulk of mankind is. Gandhiji has merely exposed his self-conceit. Krishna and Arjuna as guilty of violence. Krishna killed Kansa to end his wickedness. failing which he would have lost his own life. or can ever become. paradoxical. Rana Pratap and Guru Gobind Singh as misguided patriots. duty and love of one's own kith and kin and country might often compel us to disregard non-violence and to use force. I could never conceive that an armed resistance to an aggression is unjust. They are implicit in every constitutional public movement. In more recent history. It is my firm belief that in dubbing Rama. as it may appear. the Mahatma betrayed a total ignorance of the springs of human action. In fact there is nothing new or original in them. to overpower such an enemy by use of force. it was the heroic fight put up by Chhatrapati Shivaji that first checked and eventually destroyed the Muslim tyranny in India.

But when he finally returned to India he developed a subjective mentality under which he alone was to be the final judge of what was right or wrong. He alone was the Judge of everyone and everything. at last goaded me to the conclusion that the existence of Gandhi should be brought to an end immediately. The accumulating provocation of thirty-two years.
. metaphysics and primitive vision. If the country wanted his leadership. whimsicality. Shivaji and the Guru will remain enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen forever for the freedom they brought to them. He alone knew when to begin and when to withdraw it. Against such an attitude there can be no halfway house. he would stand aloof from the Congress and carry on his own way.name of truth and non-violence. no other could know the technique of that movement. culminating in his last pro-Muslim fast. 'A Satyagrahi can never fail' was his formula for declaring his own infallibility and nobody except himself knew what a Satyagrahi is. The movement might succeed or fail. if it did not. it might bring untold disaster and political reverses but that could make no difference to the Mahatma's infallibility. while Rana Pratap. Gandhi had done very well in South Africa to uphold the rights and well being of the Indian community there. Either Congress had to surrender its will to his and had to be content with playing second fiddle to all his eccentricity. it had to accept his infallibility. he was the master brain guiding the civil disobedience movement. or it had to carry on without him.

Gandhi's pro-Muslim policy is blatantly in his perverse attitude on the question of the national language of India. coupled with a most severe austerity of life. In the beginning of his career in India. Many people thought that his politics were irrational but they had either to withdraw from the Congress or place their intelligence at his feet to do with. disaster after disaster. These childish insanities and obstinacies. failure after failure. ceaseless work and lofty character made Gandhi formidable and irresistible. In a position of such absolute irresponsibility Gandhi was guilty of blunder after blunder. Gandhi gave a great impetus to Hindi but as he found that the
. as he liked. the Mahatma became the judge and jury in his own cause.Thus. It is quite obvious that Hindi has the most prior claim to be accepted as the premier language.

The Hindu blood began to flow from Bengal to Karachi with some retaliation by the Hindus. it is spoken. and not even the Mahatma's sophistry could make it popular. The then Viceroy. Lord Wavell. it has no grammar. But in his desire to please the Muslims he insisted that Hindustani alone should be the national language of India. he became a champion of what is called Hindustani. would not use his powers under the Government of India Act of 1935 to prevent the rape. but not written. supported him and the so-called hybrid language began to be used. secretly accepted Pakistan literally at the point of the
. though distressed at what was happening. From August 1946 onwards the private armies of the Muslim League began a massacre of the Hindus. The Congress. which had boasted of its nationalism and socialism. The charm and purity of the Hindi language was to be prostituted to please the Muslims. of course. Lord Wavell had to resign as he could not bring about a settlement and he was succeeded by Lord Mountbatten. It is a bastard tongue and crossbreed between Hindi and Urdu. it has no vocabulary. All his experiments were at the expense of the Hindus. King Log was followed by King Stork. but the more they became disloyal and treasonable to the government of which they were a part. Everybody in India knows that there is no language called Hindustani.Muslims did not like it. It is a mere dialect. murder and arson. The Interim Government formed in September was sabotaged by its Muslim League members right from its inception. His blind followers. the greater was Gandhi's infatuation for them.

Gandhi was shrewd enough to know that while undertaking a fast unto death.whose sacrifice? When top leaders of Congress. there would have been found hardly any Muslims who could have shown some grief if the fast had ended in his death. The Hindu-Muslim unity bubble was finally burst and a theocratic state was established with the consent of Nehru and his crowd and they have called 'freedom won by them with sacrifice' .bayonet and abjectly surrendered to Jinnah. 1948. but Mountbatten with his ruthless surgery gave us a gift of vivisected India ten months in advance. had he imposed for its break some condition on the Muslims in Pakistan. 1947. The official date for handing over power was fixed for June 30. One of the conditions imposed by Gandhi for his breaking of the fast unto death related to the mosques in Delhi occupied by the Hindu refugees. But when Hindus in Pakistan were subjected to violent attacks he did not so much as utter a single word to protest and censure the Pakistan Government or the Muslims concerned.which we consider a deity of worship . This is what Gandhi had achieved after thirty years of undisputed dictatorship and this is what Congress party calls 'freedom' and 'peaceful transfer of power'. with the consent of Gandhi. Lord Mountbatten came to be described in Congress circles as the greatest Viceroy and Governor-General this country ever had.my mind was filled with direful anger. divided and tore the country . It was for this reason that he purposely avoided imposing any condition on
. India was vivisected and one-third of the Indian territory became foreign land to us from August 15.

and the only thing I could expect from the people would be nothing but hatred and that I shall have lost all my honour. I stoutly maintain that Gandhi has failed in his duty. But if that is so. He has proved to be the Father of Pakistan. I thought to myself and foresaw I shall be totally ruined. He was fully aware of from the experience that Jinnah was not at all perturbed or influenced by his fast and the Muslim League hardly attached any value to the inner voice of Gandhi. but I did not speak about it to anyone whatsoever. able to retaliate. even more valuable than my life. After having fully considered the question. Briefly speaking. if I were to kill Gandhiji. People may even call me and dub me as devoid of any sense or foolish. But at the same time I felt that the Indian politics in the absence of Gandhiji would surely be proved practical. I took courage in both my hands and I did
. he had failed his paternal duty inasmuch as he has acted very treacherously to the nation by his consenting to the partitioning of it. all crumbled before Jinnah's iron will and proved to be powerless. His innervoice. but the nation would be free to follow the course founded on the reason which I consider to be necessary for sound nationbuilding. his spiritual power and his doctrine of non-violence of which so much is made of. and would be powerful with armed forces. I took the final decision in the matter. but the nation would be saved from the inroads of Pakistan. Gandhi is being referred to as the Father of the Nation. No doubt. my own future would be totally ruined.the Muslims.

I do say that my shots were fired at the person whose policy and action had brought rack and ruin and destruction to millions of Hindus. on the prayergrounds of Birla House.fire the shots at Gandhiji on 30th January 1948. But at the same time I could clearly see that the policy was entirely due to the presence of Gandhi. and his job was made easier by Gandhi's persistent policy of appeasement towards the Muslims. But I would like to add that I do not desire any mercy to be shown to me. I now stand before the court to accept the full share of my responsibility for what I have done and the judge would. which was unfairly favourable towards the Muslims. because it is significant to note that Nehru has played a leading role in the establishment of the theocratic state of Pakistan. I have to say with great regret that Prime Minister Nehru quite forgets that his preachings and deeds are at times at variances with each other when he talks about India as a secular state in season and out of season. pass against me such orders of sentence as may be considered proper. I bear no ill will towards anyone individually but I do say that I had no respect for the present government owing to their policy. nor do I wish that anyone else should beg for mercy on my behalf. There was no legal machinery by which such an offender could be brought to book and for this reason I fired those fatal shots. My confidence about the moral side of my action has not been shaken even by the
. of course.

if not more. Then why did they do so ? There are two sides to every coin. as Gandhi ji. . Gandhi and his assasin Nathuram Godse. An attempt to provide some information about the violent assassination of India's great freedom fighter. K.Prabhu Pepsi
. The shocking fact is that the assassins were not headstrong fundamentalists but were highly educated intellectuals who loved their motherland as much. This site neither supports Nathuram Godse's ideology nor does it disparage Gandhism. who believed in non-violence throughout his life. This is just a humble attempt to flip the coin and bring out the other side of this dark episode in the history. Mahatma Gandhi. Disclaimer This article is shared just to provide unbiased information about the murder of India's freedom fighter Mohandas. I have no doubt that honest writers of history will weigh my act and find the true value thereof some day in future.criticism levelled against it on all sides.